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Trips over treatment: How Siaya leaders burned Sh200m while hospitals went underfunded

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o before the National Assembly's Committee on Public Debt & Privatisation. [File, Standard] 

Siaya County splashed nearly Sh200 million on travels in 2024/2025, even as hospitals went underfunded, billions in pending bills piled up, and stalled projects gathered dust, a report by the Controller of Budget reveals.

According to the report on the budget implementation, domestic travel alone consumed Sh196.98 million, with the County Assembly burning through Sh143.91 million and the Executive spending Sh53.06 million.

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